The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Oh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality!

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it’s humorous, all the attention to it, because it’s hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that’s happened to me.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

On a spiritual level, it’s as though with my sighted eye I see what’s before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what’s hidden. It’s illuminated life more than darkened it.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

I don’t think I would be interested in the climate at all if I had been like everyone else.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

It’s easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it’s easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.

Over the years, all my coaches and my teammates have contributed a lot to shape my career. I can never forget their contribution and help.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don’t understand.

Movies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

As you know, I’m an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.